Protest signs were put up outside Second Baptist Church West at I-10 near S Greenhouse Road Tuesday calling for a second bond featuring just the proposed new stadium..

Photo: Michel Franks

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Protest signs were put up outside Second Baptist Church West at I-10 near S Greenhouse Road Tuesday calling for a second bond featuring just the proposed new stadium..

Photo: Michel Franks

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Protest signs were put up outside Second Baptist Church West at I-10 near S Greenhouse Road Tuesday calling for a second bond featuring just the proposed new stadium..

Photo: Michel Franks

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Protest signs were put up outside Second Baptist Church West at I-10 near S Greenhouse Road Tuesday calling for a second bond featuring just the proposed new stadium..

Photo: Michel Franks

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Tempers flared in Katy this week as protest signs appeared around Second Baptist Church West calling for a separate bond election for the new $58 million stadium, which was included in the current bond proposal.

Administrative pastor of Second Baptist West, Keith Carmichael, chaired the Katy ISD bond committee. Signs put up around the church, Tuesday, suggest that the wider church community are not happy about the result of the deliberations of his committee that resulted in a $748 million bond package approved for a vote.

One says "Conservative Republicans of Second for two bonds," another adds, "No to extortion, school kids used as pawns to help pass stadium."

The protest was brought to the attention of the media by Michael Franks, the Tea Party endorsed candidate for state representative for northeast Katy and the surrounding area. Franks says he too supports breaking out the stadium into a separate vote.

"If it's so controversial, why would you deny the citizens to have an up or down vote on the new proposals? That's my and a lot of people's position," Franks said.

Franks himself owns a sign making company but indicated the protest signs were not connected to him, claiming he simply found out about them via a text from a friend.

According to an email posted on the Houston Press website, Katy ISD Superintendent, Alton Frailey, responded to the signs saying they were "political bullying at its worst."

"It personally attacked a long-time community resident who chose to volunteer, as a private citizen, on behalf of our students and our community," the email published in the Press said.

Katy ISD did not return calls for further comment Wednesday.

The failure of last year's bond from Katy ISD is widely attributed to the inclusion of a proposal for a second stadium which would have cost $69.5 million.

At the board meeting Monday night where the new bond was unanimously approved some voters indicated the inclusion of the new scaled back stadium plan would mean they would vote against it.

One respondent, a 56-year-old woman, said plainly about the bond, "If it's including the stadium, then I'm not voting for it."